List of Kenyan writers and their works

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This list of Kenyan writers and their works includes numerous authors from Kenya and part of their works.

  • Abdilatif Abdalla (* 1946)
  • Carolyne Abdalla
    • Confessions of an AIDS Victim . East Africa Educational Publishers, Nairobi 1993. Short story.
  • Karen Blixen aka Tania Blixen
  • Jennifer Bobito
    • Prescription: Love . Transafrica, Nairobi 1975. Short story.
    • Screens against the sky . Bloomsbury / Penguin, London 1990 (new edition: Penguin, 1992). Novel.
    • An immaculate figure . Bloomsbury, London 1993. Novel.
  • Rocha Chimera
  • Jane Tapsubei Creider
    • Two Lines: My Spirit and I . Women's Press, London 1986.
    • The Shrunken Dream . Women's Press, Toronto (Canada) 1992.
  • Valerie Cuthbert
    • The Great Siege of Fort Jesus: An Historical Roman . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1970. Short story.
    • Dust and Shadow . Phoenix Publishers, Nairobi 1990. Short story.
  • Kuki Gallmann
  • Monicah Genya
  • Corney Gichuki
  • Jomo Kenyatta
  • Mary Kize
  • Muthoni Likimani
    • They Shall Be Chastised . Noni's Publicity, 1974. Novel.
    • What Does a Man Want? . 1974. Poetry.
    • Passbook Number F.47927: Women and Mau Mau in Kenya . Noni's Publicity, 1985 (reprinted in 2000). Novel.
  • Lily Mabura
    • The Pretoria Conspiracy . Focus Publications, 2000. Novel.
  • Marjorie Oludhe MacGoye
    • Murder in Majengo . OUP, Nairobi 1972. Short story.
    • Song of Nyarloka and Other Poems . OUP, Nairobi 1977.
    • Coming to Birth . Heinemann, Nairobi 1986.
    • The present moment . Heinemann, Nairobi 1987.
    • Street life . Heinemann, Nairobi 1987. Short story.
    • Victoria and Murder in Majengo . Macmillan, London 1993. Short story.
    • Homing In . East Africa Educational Publishers, Nairobi 1994. Short story.
    • Chira . East Africa Educational Publishers, Nairobi 1997. Short story.
  • Omondi Mak'Oloo
  • Hazel Mugo
    • Black Night at Quiloa . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1971. Novel.
  • Micere Githae Mugo (* 1942)
    • The Trial of Dedan Kimathi . Heinemann, London 1976. Drama. Together with Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
    • Daughter of my people, sing! . East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi 1976. Poetry.
    • The long illness of ex-chief Kiti . East African Literature Bureau, Nairobi 1976. Play.
    • My mother's poem and other songs. Songs and poems . East African Educational Publishers, Nairobi 1994.
  • Meja Mwangi (* 1948)
  • Lydiah Mumbi Nguya
    • The first seed . East African Literature Bureau, Kampala 1975. Novel.
  • Rebecca Njau (* 1930)
    • The Scar: a tragedy in one act . Lobp Art Gallery, Moshi 1965. Play .
    • Ripples in the pool . Transafrica Publ., Nairobi; Heinemann, London 1975. Novel.
    • The Hypocrite . Uzima Press, Nairobi 1977. Short stories.
    • Kenya women heroes and their mystical power . With Gideon Mulaki. Risk Publications, Nairobi 1984.
    • The Sacred Seed . 2003. Novel.
  • Stella Kahaki Njuguna
    • Maze . 2000th novel.
  • Asenath Bole Odaga
    • The Villager's Son .
    • Jande's ambition . Lake Publishers and Enterprises, Kisumu 1966. Children's book.
    • The shade changes .
    • A bridge in time .
    • Between the years .
    • The Angry Flames . Lake Publishers and Enterprises, Kisumu 1978.
    • The Diamond Ring . Lake Publishers and Enterprises, Kisumu 1968. Children's book.
    • Thu Tinda! . Uzima, Nairobi 1980. Children's book.
    • The Storm . Lake Publishers and Enterprises, Kisumu 1985.
    • The Secret of the Monkey Rock .
    • Why the hyena has a crooked neck and other stories . Women Literature Group, Kisumu 1993. Collection of short stories from “Kenyan grassroots women writers & storytellers” edited by Asenath Bole Odaga.
  • Margaret Ogola
    • The River and the Source . Focus, Nairobi 1994. Novel.
    • I Swear by Apollo . Nairobi 1995; Focus Publications, 2002. Novel.
  • Grace Ogot (1930-2015)
  • Moyez C. Vassanje
  • Jameela Saddiqi
    • Feast of the Nine Virgins . Bogle L'Ouverture, UK 2001. Novel.
  • Charity Waciuma
    • The Golden Feather . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1966.
    • Mweru, the Ostrich Girl . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1966.
    • Who's Calling? . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1972.
    • Merry-making . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1972.
    • Daughter of Mumbi . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1974.
  • Ngugi wa Mirii (* 1951)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (2012)
  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (* 1938)
  • Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (* 1968)
    • Dust . Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2014
  • Binyavanga Wainaina (1971-2019)
    • One day I will write about this place , Minneapolis 2011
  • Miriam Were
    • The Boy in Between . Oxford University Press, Nairobi 1969.
    • The Eighth Wife . East Africa Publishing House, Nairobi 1972.
    • The High School Gent . Oxford University Press, Nairobi 1972.
      • Your heart is my altar . East African Publishing House, Nairobi 1980. Novel.